From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 16 1:42:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C25571544F for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 01:42:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA83383; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 09:43:08 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 09:43:08 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Daniel Eischen Cc: jan@caustic.org, kip@lyris.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: does gdb on 3.3RC have thread support? (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199909152224.SAA04978@pcnet1.pcnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > Thanks, I figured as much. I just thought I remember being told at one > > point that gdb's thread support on FreeBSD had improved. Given a choice > > between adding thread support to GDB myself and developing my application > > on NT, which by the way has very good thread debugging support on MSVC6.0. > > I think I would rather just spend a weekend adding support to GDB. > > Search the mailing list archives. Doug Rabson had already done most > of the work to make FreeBSDs gdb thread-aware. It hasn't been committed, > but diffs were submitted to one of the mailing lists (probably -hackers > or -current). Unfortunately, I had to drop this for a while to fight fires in other places. There is a small amount of work to do to make the gdb interface more robust in the face of changes to the uthread structures but even without that, my current set of patches seem to work fairly well. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message